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Mark Twain; a collection of critical essays.

Author: Henry Nash Smith
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1963]
Series: A Spectrum book.; Twentieth century views.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Mirrors the changing morals of the United States literary climate, from the search for the "usable past" of the 1920's, through the social realism of the '30's, to the psychological symbolism of the '40's and 50's.
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Smith, Henry Nash.
Mark Twain.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1963]
(OCoLC)646840395
Named Person: Mark Twain; Mark Twain; Mark Twain; Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Henry Nash Smith
OCLC Number: 239296
Notes: "S-TC-30."
Description: 179 p. 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Henry Nash Smith --
Mark Twain's Humor / Van Wyck Brooks --
Mark Twain : An Appreciation / Maurice Le Breton --
Roughing It / Kenneth Lynn --
The Pilot and the Passenger / Leo Marx --
Tom Sawyer / Walter Blair --
A Sound Heart and a Deformed Conscience / Henry Nash Smith --
From Black Magic--
and White--
in Huckleberry Finn / Daniel G. Hoffman --
Huck and Oliver / W. H. Auden --
A Connecticut Yankee : The Machinery of Self-Preservation / James M. Cox --
As Free as Any Cretur (sic) / Leslie Fiedler --
The Symbols of Despair / Bernard DeVoto --
The Lost America--
the Despair of Henry Adams and Mark Twain / Tony Tanner.
Series Title: A Spectrum book.; Twentieth century views.

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Mirrors the changing morals of the United States literary climate, from the search for the "usable past" of the 1920's, through the social realism of the '30's, to the psychological symbolism of the '40's and 50's.

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